New Laptop: 15″MacBook Pro

By Daniel Miessler on July 10th, 2007: Tagged as Apple | Geek

  • 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Santa Ana)
  • 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM (soon to be 4GB)
  • 120GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
  • SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, 128MB SDRAM
  • Firewire 800
  • Matte Finish Display (LED)
  • Applecare

And the best part? Work bought it for me. All security consultants at my company are now getting Macs + VMware/Parallels. W00t.

  • brad

    dude, just got mine ordered today! Work let me choose and spec “whatever I wanted”, so I got this:

    15″ MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Dual Core 4 GB RAM 256 MB video 160GB @7200 rpm

    I can’t wait….this is going to be SICK. I also went ahead with the wireless mighty mouse and a sweet case. I will let you know how my adventure in Macland works out.

  • brad

    dude, just got mine ordered today! Work let me choose and spec “whatever I wanted”, so I got this:

    15″ MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Dual Core 4 GB RAM 256 MB video 160GB @7200 rpm

    I can’t wait….this is going to be SICK. I also went ahead with the wireless mighty mouse and a sweet case. I will let you know how my adventure in Macland works out.

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    That’s sick, man. Keep in mind that you’ll get less battery life with the faster drive (that’s what I currently have) and that the Mighty Mouse is less than mighty. I’d suggest a regular multi-button mouse. Keep us posted on how you like your first Mac, man.

  • http://dmiessler.com Daniel Miessler

    That’s sick, man. Keep in mind that you’ll get less battery life with the faster drive (that’s what I currently have) and that the Mighty Mouse is less than mighty. I’d suggest a regular multi-button mouse. Keep us posted on how you like your first Mac, man.

  • christian

    congrats, thats awesome!

    ever since i turned converted mac user 4 months ago, im in love…

    i dont even have a windows machine anywhere except in parallels! and at work, but my main box at work is debian :)

  • christian

    congrats, thats awesome!

    ever since i turned converted mac user 4 months ago, im in love…

    i dont even have a windows machine anywhere except in parallels! and at work, but my main box at work is debian :)

  • brad

    any idea what kind of battery life I can expect? also, how much improvement will we see with the new LED-backlit screens (as opposed to the LCD’s on previous models)? I would have to assume between 30 & 60 minutes of improvement. That is just a guess, though.

  • brad

    any idea what kind of battery life I can expect? also, how much improvement will we see with the new LED-backlit screens (as opposed to the LCD’s on previous models)? I would have to assume between 30 & 60 minutes of improvement. That is just a guess, though.

  • http://www.stevengharms.com/ Steven G. Harms

    I’m loving mine, as you well know.

    @brad: Battery, watching a DVD on battery 90 minutes.

    Working with not too much disk churn ~ 3.5 hours last time I paid close attention. It’s not a huge battery saver, but still a ton better than my 03 PowerBook G4.

    I think that VMWare Fusion is the bees knees. I don’t have any feeling that //s will be around 18 months from now.

  • http://www.stevengharms.com Steven G. Harms

    I’m loving mine, as you well know.

    @brad: Battery, watching a DVD on battery 90 minutes.

    Working with not too much disk churn ~ 3.5 hours last time I paid close attention. It’s not a huge battery saver, but still a ton better than my 03 PowerBook G4.

    I think that VMWare Fusion is the bees knees. I don’t have any feeling that //s will be around 18 months from now.


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